Two Revolutionary War veterans in one cemetery? Around here? That must be very rare, right?

Wrong.

More than a dozen Revolutionary War soldiers are buried in Jackson County, with as many as three in one cemetery. They are largely forgotten.

Revolutionary War veterans arrived with Jackson's first settlers in the 1830s. They were local heroes.

John Durand, a revolutionary drummer called "captain," told war stories every year at Jackson's earliest Fourth of July celebrations. When he grew too frail to walk, he was carried to the speaker's stand.

Not far from Durand's marker at Mount Evergreen Cemetery is the nearly overlooked resting place of John Thompson. He was a fife player from Connecticut whose flat stone says, "Continental Line — Revolutionary War."

Bill Lowe of Jackson came across Thompson's marker years ago, when it "was flat on the ground in danger of being overgrown."

For decades starting in 1916, the Daughters of the American Revolution inventoried Revolutionary War graves in Jackson County, but some are undoubtedly still unknown.